Anyone trail riding with slydog command skis?

[Richard Hodgins]

I have put some time on the command skis this year and my review is mixed. On softer conditions they track decent and dart minimally. They turn well and are predictable. With lower snow conditions and very cold weather the conditions are very firm and the darting and tracking increases a fair amount. The shapers work better than the round bars for sure. They dart less which is funny because in the past I always found shapers to turn better but dart more. They turn instantly on these conditions so if a guy is not smooth with his steering inputs they will feel twitchy and jerky for sure. Shimming the skis helped a bit and to see minimal improvement in tracking/darting it required suspension adjustments that ruined the ride quality and comfort of the sled. Im gonna continue to experiment as I do like the turning confidence but not sure if itll be a good choice for full day higher mileage riding days

This is exactly my experience as well. I realized I do have shapers, but maybe too much (9inch). I will double check toe out but I think I'm already at 1/4inch

 

[fatchance]

Any more feedback on these skis?

 

[EWK]

I have them on my ‘22 with power steering and they are near perfect for me. Zero push and minimal darting even in heavy wet snow. I had to keep reducing the spring preload on the front skis until the darting was gone and at my current setup the sled handles beautifully.

I am running a shaper bar on 1 ski and regular round bar on the other.

 

[74Nitro]

What carbides are you running?
When the commands first came out I put them on my 20 but had to take them off because steering was to hard, I recently put eps on my sled and put the commands back on with 6” shaper bars, haven’t played with the suspension yet but I’m super impressed with these skis, zero push so far even on fresh snow covered trails, absolutely no darting or twitchy feeling on hard park and they hold a straight line extremely well. At high speeds I can definitely feel some resistance in the steering as the eps is speed sensitive but couldn’t be happier with these skis.

Had a customer buy a winder with these skis on it and he is complaining that it takes a lot of effort to turn. No power steering obviously. What should I put on for carbide?

 

[rev them up]

Had a customer buy a winder with these skis on it and he is complaining that it takes a lot of effort to turn. No power steering obviously. What should I put on for carbide?

I couldn't get them to work on my winder or nytro, great ski over 30mph, under that a complete bear to turn. Put tuners back on with snowtrackers.

 

[WinderFab]

Any more feedback on these skis?

If you have eps they are worth every penny.

I have them on my ‘22 with power steering and they are near perfect for me. Zero push and minimal darting even in heavy wet snow. I had to keep reducing the spring preload on the front skis until the darting was gone and at my current setup the sled handles beautifully.

I am running a shaper bar on 1 ski and regular round bar on the other.

Good to hear they are working for you. I have no preload on front shocks, about 1 1/2 - 2 turns of preload on oem center shock spring and straps at longest setting, sled stays planted through the corners with ease.

Had a customer buy a winder with these skis on it and he is complaining that it takes a lot of effort to turn. No power steering obviously. What should I put on for carbide?

I wouldn’t know as Ive only tried shapers but without eps I think your customer is out of luck with these skis.

 

[justinator]

I still have mixed feelings with them and they arent on my sled currently. I threw them on for a few days last week and spent several mornings just making adjustments and testing. In softer conditions and looser stuff they work decent. They track ok and without a doubt they turn well and will hold whatever line you choose to follow. The first thing I find odd is the transistion from where they are turning well to becoming extremely aggressive. What I mean is for a certain amount of degrees of turn in they feel very smooth and precise then all of a sudden the ski becomes very grabby and has too much bite. The steering bite isnt as linear as other skis ive tried. I have been all over the board with spring adjustments and toe out settings. The rubber dampners from slydog could use a little more thickness on the rear as they could use a little shim to them but not much because then the characteristics I dislike about them become amplified. They dont track the best on rock hard conditions but probably not worse than any other ski with single runners. Earlier in the season with rock hard conditions I actually found they tracked better with shapers than a regular round bar which was odd cause Ive always found shapers to dart worse than round bars on those conditions in the past with other skis. I also dont have a 137 so maybe they work better on that skid then a 146 but I found all of the 146’s Ive had they naturally seem to have less ski pressure then the 137’s do with equal spring preloads. I will mess with them some more but I dont use them for any weekend rides just yet. I would end up being annoyed with them for 200-250 mile rides. Theres really nothing special to the bottom of the ski that completely seperates them from the others so they kinda handle like youd suspect a deep single keel ski would act.